Which preposition to use with apex
And, lastly, a large mastiff made his appearance, walking in a slow, measured gait, with a sleek tortoise-shell cat on his back; and she, in turn, was surmounted by a mouse, which formed the apex of this singular pyramid.
They thus moved forward in the shape of a triangle, the apex to the rear.
Henley Fairford replaced his wife at Undine's side; and since it was unheard-of at Apex for a married man to force his society on a young girl, she inferred that the others didn't care to talk to her, and that her host and hostess were in league to take her off their hands.
Her first struggleafter she had ceased to scream for candy, or sulk for a new toyhad been to get away from Apex in summer.
"It grew out of a bit of talk with the man who will have to put the apex on our pyramid after we have done our part.
Imagine the Egyptian needle in Central Park, shod on its apex with hard steel, dropped point downward from the height of Trinity steeple; it weighs 225 tons, and it would strike with just about the effect of one of the 110 ton gun's projectiles.
" The object of the French triangle, having its apex at Namur, was to break the German army in two.
The hole blasted by the miners looks like the crater of a huge volcano without the circling top, and sloping down to an apex from which is the tunnel to the mill.
REDAN, a rampart shaped like the letter V, with its apex toward the enemy.
Mr. Spragg had come to Apex as a poor boy, and their early married life had been a protracted struggle, darkened by domestic affliction.